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Chicago-based photographer and designer Paul Octavious's portfolio is as varied as it is impressive. With projects ranging from gorgeous Record Stills to smoke bomb documentation and aerial stills, he made it difficult to decide on something to share.

This project by designer Sergio Daniel Garcia is a great example of utilizing print material for a desired effect as much as design. The printed book object was completed as a student project to capture and display the essence of Dorothea Lange's photography.

"Brinicles are cool" is exactly what one of my Facebook friend's statuses announced, and, after watching this video, I'd have to agree. Like so many natural phenomena, Brinicles look absolutely supernatural.

This video footage from BBC: Frozen Planet shows a time-lapse of Brinicle formation and its path of destruction. Also called the "finger of death," it is essentially and underwater icicle that forms under extreme temperatures in calm waters.

The war in Afghanistan began nearly a decade ago, before the advent of the iPhone and Facebook. Like technology, the war has changed and evolved. We've seen and read about soldiers and their experiences, but these images, though documentary in nature, give a candid snapshot of everyday life in and around the war.

Design and production company, Superfad wrote over to share some of the typography-based graphic elements they created for the documentary Project Nim. Combined with some storied information they shared, this forms a nice case study of work between designers and filmmakers.

Project Nim, from Roadside Attractions/HBO Documentary Films, is the tale of a chimpanzee's journey through human society and the impact on people's lives he makes along the way.